Patents Represented by Attorney Cantor Colburn
  • Patent number: 8164208
    Abstract: A system comprises a turbine engine having a first spool connected to a compressor portion, a power turbine spool, a first generator connected to the power turbine spool, and a second generator connected to the first spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Randy Scott Rosson, Kevin Wood Wilkes
  • Patent number: 8161888
    Abstract: A car wash roller and a manufacturing method are provided. The roller includes a body with first and second apertures and a shaft disposed in the first aperture. The body further includes a third aperture extending from a top surface to the first aperture. The shaft has an aperture that is aligned with the third aperture. The roller further includes a locking member disposed in both the third aperture and the aperture of the shaft that prevents the shaft from rotating relative to the body. The roller further includes first and second plastic sleeves that are disposed on the shaft, such that the sleeves do not rotate relative to the shaft. The roller further includes first and second plastic wheels that are rotatably coupled to the first and second plastic sleeves, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Vaughan Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Vaughan Balash
  • Patent number: 8166426
    Abstract: A method for reducing a depth of binary decision diagram includes identifying, with a processing device, one or more less probable positive paths within the binary decision diagram, the less probable positive paths within the binary decision diagram include a number of decision nodes from a starting variable to a positive, binary logic “1” terminal node within the binary decision diagram, and the identified less probable positive paths are eliminated. Identifying the less probable positive paths within the binary decision diagram includes: assigning ƒ to the binary decision diagram, assigning K to a depth threshold of the binary decision diagram, and constructing a second binary decision diagram g by logically ORing together positive paths in ƒ that have a length above K. Eliminating the identified less probable positive paths in ƒ comprises obtaining an approximated function ƒ?, by conjuncting ƒ and the negation of g, such that ƒ??ƒ^ g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eli Arbel, Oleg Rokhlenko
  • Patent number: 8163693
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds urea-containing peptide compounds of Formula I and the pharmaceutically salts and hydrates thereof. The variables T, R1-R9, J, L, M, Y, Z, m, n, and t are defined herein. Certain compounds of Formula I are useful as antiviral agents. Certain urea-containing peptide compounds disclosed herein are potent and/or selective inhibitors of viral replication, particularly Hepatitis C virus replication. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more urea containing peptides compounds and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, excipients, or diluents. Such pharmaceutical compositions may contain a urea containing peptides compound as the only active agent or may contain a combination of a urea containing peptides compound and one or more other pharmaceutically active agents. The invention also provides methods for treating viral infections, including Hepatitis C infections, in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Chen, Milind Deshpande, Avinash Phadke
  • Patent number: 8164016
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switching apparatus (10) for switching a load on and off, in particular a motor or the like in a vehicle, having a housing (20), an operating element (30), a switching element (40), wherein the switching element (40) can be activated by the operating element (30), and at least one switching signal for a control unit can be produced by means of the switching element (40), and the operating element (30) has a symbol element (50). The invention provides for a first optical waveguide element (60) to carry a first light (71) from at least one first light source (70) such that the symbol element (50) is uniformly illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tae-Sun Kim, Rainer Felderhoff
  • Patent number: 8164702
    Abstract: A display substrate includes; a dual transistor electrically connected to a first gate line and a data line, which is disposed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first gate line, the dual transistor including a first drain electrode and a second drain electrode, a pixel electrode having a first pixel part and a second pixel part which are respectively connected to the first drain electrode and the second drain electrode, a connection transistor electrically connected to the second pixel part and a second gate line which is adjacent to the first gate line, the connection transistor comprising a connection drain electrode, a voltage-decreasing electrode extended from a connection drain electrode of the connection transistor a voltage-decreasing line extended in substantially the same direction as the first and second gate lines, and disposed on a data insulation layer overlapping the voltage-decreasing electrode and the data insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kee-Bum Park, Eun Cho, Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8162413
    Abstract: A cover for a merchandising display unit (1) disclosed. The cover of the rectangular top opening of the storage compartment includes displaceable lids (9) arranged in two rows along opposing longer sides (2,4) of the storage unit so that access is provided to the storage compartment from both sides of the storage unit. The cover has a stationary cover plate (6) along a mid section of the storage unit and a rail system (5) with a number of parallel transverse rails between the two longer sides, and the lids (9) mounted between separate tracks in adjacent rails and are displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the longer sides (2,4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Behr A/S
    Inventors: Kristian Behr, Peter Behr
  • Patent number: 8163244
    Abstract: Provided is a device for generation of cyclopropene compounds which is capable of achieving direct in situ preparation and application of cyclopropene compounds inhibiting the action of ethylene which accelerates the ripening process of plants, the device comprising a first storage part for storing precursors of cyclopropene compounds (“cyclopropene precursors”), a second storage part for storing reaction reagents which convert cyclopropene precursors into cyclopropene derivatives via chemical reaction, and a spray part for spraying the cyclopropene derivatives produced by the chemical reaction between the cyclopropene precursors and the reaction reagents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventor: Sang-Ku Yoo
  • Patent number: 8163814
    Abstract: Azidoaryl-substituted cyclooctene monomers and synthesized and used in the preparation of various copolymers. Among these copolymers are those prepared from ring-opening metathesis polymerization of cyclooctene, polyethylene glycol-substituted cyclooctene, and azidoaryl-substituted cyclooctene. These copolymers are useful in the formation of crosslinked films that reduce fouling of water purification membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignees: The University of Massachusetts, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Todd Shannon Emrick, Kurt Breitenkamp, Ravindra Revanur, Benny D. Freeman, Bryan McCloskey
  • Patent number: 8164562
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a plurality of gate lines which transmits gate signals having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage; a plurality of data lines which transmits data voltages; a plurality of storage electrode lines which transmits storage signals; a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor connected to a switching element and a common voltage, and a storage capacitor connected to the switching element and a storage electrode line of the plurality of storage electrode lines; a gate driver which generates the gate signals; and a plurality of signal generating circuits which generates the storage signals based on at least one control signal and at least one gate signal. The storage signal applied to each pixel has a voltage level which changes after a charging of the data voltage into the liquid crystal capacitor and the storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung-Woo Lee, Sang-Jin Pak
  • Patent number: 8163815
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are curable (meth)acrylate resins for dental compositions obtained by reacting an anhydride with an alcohol or an amine to obtain a carboxy ester or a carboxy amide and reacting the carboxy ester or carboxy amide with a (meth)acrylate monomer comprising an epoxide group or an oxetane group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Pentron Clinical Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shuhua Jin, Weitao Jia
  • Patent number: 8164645
    Abstract: An apparatus received input of a base image and a reference image that are images picked up by two cameras provided on left and right. A window setting portion determines a size of a window based on an edge value of an image around a gaze point in the base image. A position deviation operation portion operates deviation between the image in the window of the base image and the image in the window of the reference image. A three-dimensional coordinate operation portion operates a three-dimensional coordinate of a surface of an object based on deviation between the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8163847
    Abstract: A thermoset composition exhibiting reduced water absorption in the cured state includes an olefinically unsaturated monomer and a capped poly(arylene ether) prepared by the reaction of an uncapped poly(arylene ether) with an anhydride capping agent. The capped poly(arylene ether) is isolated and/or purified by methods that reduce the concentrations of polar impurities that contribute to water absorption by the cured composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Kenneth Paul Zarnoch, John Robert Campbell, Amy Rene Freshour, Hua Guo, John Austin Rude, Prameela Susarla, Michael Alan Vallance, Gary William Yeager
  • Patent number: 8158024
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a pair of field generating electrodes disposed on at least one of the first and the second substrates; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and the second substrates; wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal composition including a polar compound, the polar compound including a compound represented by Formula 1: wherein A represents X is a halogen, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 alkoxy group and R2 is a C1-C5 alkyl group or a C1-C5 alkoxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-Hyung Park, Jin-Lak Kim, Jeong-Uk Heo, Seong-Nam Lee, Jang-Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 8158710
    Abstract: A composition, comprising a blend of 10 to 45 weight percent of a polyester selected from the group consisting of poly(ethylene terephthalate), poly(butylene terephthalate), poly(1,4-cyclohexyldimethylene cyclohexyl dicarboxylate), or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing; and 55 to 90 weight percent of a poly(ester-ether)copolymer, each based on the total weight of the polyester and the poly(ester-ether)copolymer; wherein the poly(ester-ether)copolymer comprises units derived from terephthalic or a chemical equivalent thereof, units derived from butane diol or a chemical equivalent thereof, and 25 to 65 weight percent of units derived from poly(oxytetramethylene)glycol or a chemical equivalent thereof, based on the weight of the copolymer; wherein the composition retains at least 50% of at least one of tensile strength, modulus, stress at maximum strain, or the elongation at break is larger than 150% after being exposed to a temperature of 140° C. for 70 hours, as measured by ASTM D-638.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventor: Peter H. Vollenberg
  • Patent number: 8161128
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for sharing data across two or more different clusters. An operating system (OS) in a cluster checks a metadata record of a file system of a shared device to retrieve path group identifiers (PGIDs). A control unit list of the shared device is checked to retrieve PGIDs that are active on the shared device. An input/output supervisor (IOS) record in a couple dataset is checked to retrieve PGIDs in the cluster. The metadata record, control unit list, and IOS record are compared, and if a PGID is found in the metadata record that is not in the IOS record and if the found PGID is not in the control unit list, the found PGID is not active on the shared device. The found PGID of the different cluster is removed from metadata record, and members of the cluster can R/W to file system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Harry M. Yudenfriend
  • Patent number: 8159854
    Abstract: A piezo-effect transistor (PET) device includes a piezoelectric (PE) material disposed between first and second electrodes; and a piezoresistive (PR) material disposed between the second electrode and a third electrode, wherein the first electrode comprises a gate terminal, the second electrode comprises a common terminal, and the third electrode comprises an output terminal such that an electrical resistance of the PR material is dependent upon an applied voltage across the PE material by way of an applied pressure to the PR material by the PE material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce G. Elmegreen, Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Glenn J. Martyna, Xiao Hu Liu, Dennis M. Newns
  • Patent number: 8159540
    Abstract: A MCP semiconductor device with an “anti-shake” function includes a driver chip and a logic chip. The logic chip includes a correction signal processing unit which obtains a value for vibration of apparatus based on a vibration detection signal to generate a correction signal and a control signal output unit having a plurality of types of signal output sections which output a vibration control signal in accordance with the correction signal to a vibration correction control unit which executes vibration correction control for an optical component. The logic chip further includes a driver output terminal which outputs the vibration control signal to the driver chip, an external output terminal which outputs the control signal to an external circuit other than the driver chip, and also an output switch unit which connects one of the plurality of signal output sections with the driver output terminal or the external output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Tomofumi Watanabe, Tomonori Kamiya, Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 8158314
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to form a high density electrostatic latent image on an organic photoreceptor via image exposure using a semiconductor laser or a light-emitting diode of an oscillation wavelength of 350-500 nm; and to provide an organic photoreceptor exhibiting improved sensitivity and repetition characteristics or improved dot reproducibility deterioration, and an image forming apparatus employing the organic photoreceptor. In an organic photoreceptor having a charge generating layer and a charge transporting layer on a conductive support, an organic photoreceptor wherein a charge generating layer incorporates a binder resin and a Br substituted pyranthrone-based compound and the spectral spectrum of the charge generating layer has maximum absorption values each in the region of 430-445 nm, 500-510 nm, and 530-545 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Sakimura, Toyoko Shibata, Shinichi Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: D658225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Adlens Ltd
    Inventor: Christopher King